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Experience the spread of a fire individually in VR – immersive building physics and other examples

With the “VR4Teach” project, the Institute of Numerical Methods and Informatics in Civil Engineering and the Institute of Construction and Building Materials have realized a cost-effective option that brings virtual reality to students in the lecture hall. In a direct test in the lecture, the spread of fire and smoke development in a one-room apartment could be experienced immersively by students.

Fire fighting in virtual reality

This year the IIB took part in Hobit 2019 once again with a comprehensive setup at the booth of Department 13 and showed interested students how to train and experience immersive fire fighting in a digital building model using virtual reality.

7th & 8th February 2019 at the Technische Universität Darmstadt

In February 2019, an international and multidisciplinary conference on „Urban Infrastructures: Criticality, Vulnerability and Protection“ will take place at the Technische Universität Darmstadt. The focus of the conference is on networked critical infrastructures in cities as socio-technical systems that require special protection strategies due to their vulnerabilities.

7th German-Austrian IBPSA-Conference

This year's BauSIM took place from 26th to 28th September in Karlsruhe. The departments of Building Lifecycle Management as well as Bauphysik & Technischer Ausbau of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) were organizers of the German-Austrian conference of the “International Building Performance Simulation Association” (IBPSA), which entered its 7th round. The topics focused on BIM-based planning tools and integration approaches, integrated building and energy concepts, building monitoring and operational optimization, numerical methods in connection with optimization and implementation, validation and quality assurance of (product) data, user behavior in buildings as well as modeling and simulation in the life cycle of buildings in general.

Successful participation of the IIB in the 30th Forum Bauinformatik in Weimar from September 19th to 21st, 2018

Since 1993, IIB employees have participated in the Forum Bauinformatik consistently. This continued this year at the Bauhaus-University Weimar, when we submitted and presented diverse contribution to various research topics. The institute was represented with a total of six submissions by Anna Wagner, Laura Möller, Christian Leifgen, Christian Eller, Meiling Shi, André Hoffmann and Tim Huyeng.

Extending course offers starting this winter term

Digitalization is also making steady progress in the construction and environmental sectors. Building Information Modeling (BIM) in particular is the fundamental method for digitizing engineering planning, implementation and operation through to dismantling and demolition of buildings in the sense of urban mining. In addition, there is the management of environmental and terrain information in the tool category Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and the management of sensor data for intelligent buildings. This is where the new subject profile „ Digitales Bau‐ und Umweltinformationsmanagement “ (Digital Construction, Civil and Environmental Information Management) comes in, which will be available to Bachelor's and Master's students in the coming winter semester in the “Business Administration/Industrial Engineering – Specialising in Civil Engineering” degree program.

Doctoral seminar took place in August

From August 8th to 12th, 2018, the doctoral seminar of the Institute for Numerical Methods and Informatics in Civil Engineering took place. Venue was the Darmstädter Haus located in the Kleinwalsertal (Austria).

Research for civil security

Following the start of SCOPE at the beginning of June ( news article ), the INSITU project is another new research initiative at the IIB. Since July 1, the Institute has been conducting research in cooperation with the Federal Criminal Police Office regarding the “ Optimization of law enforcement processes via mobile computer-based on-site description of complex crime scene situations ”. The project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as part of the Federal Government's “Research for civil security 2012-2017” framework programme.

Semantic Construction Project Engineering (SCOPE)

On the 1st of June 2018, the institute begins work on a new research project. SCOPE (Semantic Construction Project Engineering ) will be conducted in cooperation with the Ed. Züblin AG and the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE and is funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) over a period of 3 years as part of the research initiative “Energiewendebauen”.

International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering 2018 in Tampere, Finland

At this year's ICCCBE in Tampere, Finland, the Institute of Numerical Methods and Informatics in Civil Engineering was represented as well. In addition to disseminating its own research results, the focus was on international exchanges with colleagues working and researching in the field of computer science in civil engineering from all over the world. Anna Wagner and Prof. Uwe Rüppel attended the conference.